Fujimori won 9.22 million votes to Roberto Sánchez's 9.17 million. She will be sworn in July 28 for the 2026-2031 term.
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Keiko Fujimori has been declared the elected president of Peru after the National Electoral Office (ONPE) completed the full count of ballots and resolved contested tallies through the Special Electoral Courts (JEE).
Fujimori, the Fuerza Popular candidate, secured 9,223,396 votes, defeating Roberto Sánchez of Juntos por el Perú, who received 9,173,755 votes in the second-round runoff. The margin between the two candidates was approximately 49,641 votes.
The National Electoral Jury (JNE) will formally proclaim Fujimori as the winner of the second round. A proclamation ceremony is scheduled for Wednesday, July 15, at the Gran Teatro Nacional in San Borja, beginning at noon.
Fujimori will be sworn in as president on July 28 in a ceremony at the Congress headquarters. Her term will run from 2026 to 2031.
At 51 years old, Fujimori becomes the first woman elected to the presidency in Peru. Her political career spans more than three decades. Born on May 25, 1975, she served as first lady at age 19 when her father, Alberto Fujimori, assumed the presidency in 1990. In 1994, she became the youngest first lady in the Americas after her father removed her mother, Susana Higuchi, from the role amid the latter's public allegations against the government.
Fujimori later served as a congresswoman beginning at age 31 and ran for president for the first time at age 35 before her successful candidacy at 51.
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